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king. He painted many mythological and religious subjects, landscapes, animals, theatrical decorations, wall and ceiling decorations, besides making about 10,000 drawings. Works: Venus demanding Arms of Vulcan (1732), Rinaldo and Armida (1734), Diana leaving the Bath (1742), Vulcan giving Arms to Venus (1757), Vertumnus and Pomona (1763), Cephalus and Aurora (1768), Jupiter and Callisto, Rape of Europa, Venus asking Vulcan for Arms, Neptune and Amymone, Amynthus freeing Sylvia, The Goal and four landscapes, Louvre; Reunion of the Arts, Angers Museum; Aurora and Cephalus, Nancy Museum; Painting, Silenus Drunk, Lille Museum; Mercury entrusting the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Mt. Nisa, Caen Museum; Amorous Gardener, Education of a Dog, Nîmes Museum; Cupids and Flowers, Nude Women Reclining, Toulon Museum; Shepherd and Shepherdess, Bordeaux Museum; Pan and Syrinx, National Gallery, London; Venus and Adonis, Barker Collection; Young Mother Resting, Duc d'Aumale; Leda, Douglas Collection; Portrait of Mme. de Pompadour, M. Henri Didier; do., National Gallery, Edinburgh; Madonna, M. Hollond; three mythological subjects, Stevens Collection; Woman Reclining, several mythological subjects, Narvaez Collection; Woman with Straw Hat, Chevalier Collection, Paris; Sunrise, Sunset, Lord Hertford; The Kiss, Egmont-Massé Collection; Toilet of Venus (1746), The Toilet (1746), Are they thinking of Grapes? (1747), Leda and Swan, Venus and Graces Bathing, Triumph of Galatea or Birth of Venus (1740), Stockholm Museum; Venus and Cupid, Berlin Museum; Peace and War, Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Rescue of Arion, New York Museum; Voluptuary, Winter Scene, Historical Society, New York.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Dohme, 3; Goncourt, i. 177, ii. 516; Mantz, Fr. Boucher (Paris, 1880); Ch. Blanc, École française; Houssaye Gal., iii. 129; Portfolio (1872), 34; Gaz. des B. Arts (1874), x. 496.


BOUCHOT, FRANÇOIS, born in Paris, Nov. 29, 1800, died there, Feb. 7, 1842. French school; history painter, pupil of Regnault and Lethière; won the grand prix de Rome in 1824; and then studied for seven years in Rome and Naples, during which period he sent several noteworthy compositions to Paris. Works: Battle of Zürich in 1799, Versailles Museum; Funeral of Gen. Marceau, Mairie, Chartres; Intoxication of Silenus, Lille Museum; Magdalen under the Cross, Madeleine Church, Paris; Portraits of Gen. Jaubert, of Lablache, of Grisi, etc.—Ch. Blanc, École française.


BOUDEWYNS (Bauduins), ADRIAEN FRANS, baptised in Brussels, Oct. 3, 1644, died there about 1700. Flemish school; landscape painter, pupil of Ignatius van der Stock; admitted to guild, Brussels, in 1665. About 1670 he went to France; in 1677, had returned to Brussels. Painted many small landscapes with figures and animals by Pieter Bout. Works: Landscapes (9), Madrid Museum; Fish Market at Antwerp, Louvre, Paris; Village Market (1686), Antwerp Museum; Landscape with Figures and Cattle, Rotterdam Museum; Fish Market, Fruit Market, Stockholm Museum; Southern Strand View, Brunswick Museum; Convent Gate with Beggars, nine others, Dresden Gallery; Landscapes (2), Museum, Vienna; do. (8), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; do. (3), Uffizi, Florence; others in Stuttgart, Dessau, and Wörlitz Galleries.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 788; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 63; Jal, 127; Journal des B. Arts (1869), 35; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 139; Michiels, ix. 335.


BOUDIN, EUGÈNE, born at Honfleur (Calvados); contemporary. Marine painter. Medals: 3d class, 1881; 2d class, 1883. Works: Fishing (1880); The Meuse at Rotterdam (1881); On the Meuse (1882); L'Entrée, La Sortie (1883); Low Tide, High Tide (1884);